Wysing Arts Centre

Wysing Arts Centre Wysing Arts Centre hosts residencies, commissions and events from our site in Bourn, Cambridgeshire.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Apply to join our studio community! 📍Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, CambridgeshireWe’re inviting applicat...
23/06/2026

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Apply to join our studio community!

📍Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridgeshire

We’re inviting applications for an available artist studio at Wysing - a spacious, ground floor studio with level access, natural light, based in our Brooks Building.

We’re especially interested in hearing from artists who would benefit from the accessible nature of this space. We welcome studio share proposals, so please let us know if this is something you’re open to when applying.

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Details:
£292.34 inc VAT/month + bills
36.76 m²

For more information, including access details and application process, head to the link in our bio 🔗

Club Urania returns to Cambridge Junction this July, with an unforgettable line-up of live music, DJs, performance art a...
17/06/2026

Club Urania returns to Cambridge Junction this July, with an unforgettable line-up of live music, DJs, performance art and drag 🪩 🎤

The night is curated in part once again by residency Artist Samra Mayanja, who has invited Alexander Gallimore to perform ‘bodies over bodies under bullets’ 🖤

Alexander Gallimore (he/him) is a Jamaican-born performer, playwright and archivist based in London. His practice channels archival research into fragmented, surreal landscapes, considering how performance engages with ancestry, disappearance, desire, and the body. Working across performance art-theatre and choreo-poetry, he draws on Caribbean folk horror and European expressionism to investigate migration, race and sexuality through embodied memory.

Club Urania is headlined by Lynks, accompanied by: THEMPRESS, DJ Boss Lady, Fen, Elektra Phoresis, with more still to be announced.

🎟 Book tickets now at the link in bio!

Get involved: Grounds, Gardening, Biodiversity + Site Volunteers 🌱Wysing Arts Centre is looking for volunteers to suppor...
10/06/2026

Get involved: Grounds, Gardening, Biodiversity + Site Volunteers 🌱

Wysing Arts Centre is looking for volunteers to support the care, maintenance and long-term development of Wysing’s buildings and landscape. Giving a couple of hours a week, volunteers contribute to a five-year vision to enhance biodiversity while also helping with practical tasks that keep the site safe, functional and welcoming for artists, audiences and participants.

Set within 11 acres of fields, woodlands and natural habitats, Wysing’s site plays a central role in our programme, supporting ecological initiatives, while hosting young people, local communities, and artists from across the world. Following the completion of Wysing’s capital project that sees environmental sustainability and biodiversity embedded across our site, this is an exciting opportunity to be part of Wysing’s next chapter 💭

Find more information at wysing.art 🔗

To apply or have an informal discussion about what volunteering might look like for you get in touch: [email protected].

Don’t miss: Flare-up at 💥Flare-Up is an exhibition that brings together artists whose work engages with the poetics and ...
04/06/2026

Don’t miss: Flare-up at 💥

Flare-Up is an exhibition that brings together artists whose work engages with the poetics and aesthetics of illness, disability, neurodivergence and Deafness. Co-curated by Mariana Lemos who recently joined as Wysing Arts Centre and DASH’s Home-based Future Curator in May.

Featuring new commissions and existing works including by Wysing alum: Leah Clements, Abi Palmer, Jesse Darling, Lizzy Rose, and Bella Milroy who is currently undertaking their PhD ‘Centering the Rural: Organisation Identities, Public Engagement and Curatorial Practice at Wysing Arts Centre’.

Also with works by:
Angela de la Cruz, Avril Corroon, Benoît Piéron, Carolyn Lazard, Christine Sun Kim, Constantina Zavitsanos, Derek Jarman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Freestylers, Jamila Prowse, JJJJJerome Ellis, Park McArthur, RA Walden and Racheal Crowther.

Be sure to catch their events programme, which includes performances, online discussions, a BSL tour with Martin Glover, and a panel discussion with .art .

Open until 16 August 2026 🩵

Supported by:


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Polina Mikhailova
Trampoline, Association in Support of the French Art Scene, Paris

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1. Rachael Crowther, Qualified to Care, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Stephen James.
2-3: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (Chemo) (1991). Photo: Rob Harris

Syllabus VIII Artist Sym Stellium reflects on this past year with the cohort 💭“Meeting and collaborating with artists wh...
01/06/2026

Syllabus VIII Artist Sym Stellium reflects on this past year with the cohort 💭

“Meeting and collaborating with artists who align with my values and whose work inspires me to stretch outside my comfort zone, has been one of the most rewarding elements of my Syllabus journey. Understanding what others are fascinated / obsessed / possessed by, and how this can be integrated into a curated programme has been a nourishing experience. It’s been a pleasure to work both within and outside the realms of arts organisations whilst sinking our teeth into ideas of mutual aid and alternative systems to sustain artists. The connections and learnings will continue to unfurl and ripple out/inward.”

Sym will be performing as part of Fierce Festivals programme 'Fierce Jams' on 18th June, and facilitating one of LADA's Do It Together (DIT) peer-to-peer professional development programmes in Birmingham, in collaboration with Fierce Festival and Performance, Possession & Automation (pp+a). They will also be starting a Master's at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in Experimental Performance in September.

Find out more about Sym’s work at symstellium.hotglue.me 🔗

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1-3: 'your apathy bores me (to tears)' performance at , as part of a performance series curated by . Photos by
4-6: courtesy of Sym Stellium
7: Syllabus VIII cohort. Photos by 💛

Residency artists Hannan Jones and Shamica Ruddock returned to Wysing in April to present the second part of their sculp...
25/05/2026

Residency artists Hannan Jones and Shamica Ruddock returned to Wysing in April to present the second part of their sculptural commission ‘Strike | the mark feeds the score| surface as notation’.

Following the exhibition at Forma where elements were seen in one long score, the duo re-assembled the works across Wysing’s grounds.

The work was then activated by performances from Hannan and Shamica with the Cambridge Young Performers Orchestra in response to the work. Meanwhile Shenece Oretha responded with a performance specifically looking at the drum.

It’s been a pleasure to have Hannan and Shamica back at Wysing and to see this project take so many forms, including sculpture, sound workshops and live collaborative performance 🤍

‘Strike | the mark feeds the score | surface as notation’ was commissioned and produced by Wysing Arts Centre, Forma, and Knotenpunkt.

Photo: Sophie Davidson

The Syllabus partners – Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, PS², Site Gallery and Studio Voltaire (associate partner)...
21/05/2026

The Syllabus partners – Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, PS², Site Gallery and Studio Voltaire (associate partner) – are thrilled to announce Live Art Development Agency (LADA) will join the Syllabus network for the ninth edition of the programme.

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Syllabus is an alternative and independent learning programme supporting ten artists across ten months through collective learning, critical exchange, and community-building. Now entering its ninth year, the programme continues to evolve collaboratively in response to each cohort of artists.

LADA’s longstanding commitment to experimental practice, live art, and artist-centred development will bring valuable perspectives and conversations to the programme.

Mary Osborn, Director of LADA said:

“We are super excited to be part of this one-of-a-kind learning programme. This is an incredible opportunity for LADA to meet a cohort of artists working with a rich diversity of forms and disciplines, and to offer a focus on liveness and embodied practice as part of the gatherings. Thank you to the brilliant Syllabus partners for inviting us into the fold - we can’t wait to get started!”

Together, the partner organisations will host a series of in-person gatherings and online sessions. Led by Syllabus IX Artist Lead Harun Morrison, this year’s programme kicks off in September and rolls out across the year.

Find out more about Syllabus at wysing.art 🔗

Image: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Symoné The Rules of Watching: Interactive Talk, 2026. Image Michael Bowles.

New commission: ‘Fox Road’ by Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom now spans the front of our Brooks Building.🎤🍃Created with foley ar...
18/05/2026

New commission: ‘Fox Road’ by Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom now spans the front of our Brooks Building.

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Created with foley artist Rebecca Glover, ‘Fox Road’ recreates the sounds of Wysing’s landscape through acts of performance: footsteps, birdsong, wind and passing cars – working with microphones, hands and fragments of natural materials. By foregrounding the recordings, this ordinarily invisible process is brought into the open and highlights the gap between direct experiences of the rural, and how it is staged, produced and consumed.

The Brooks Building Commission is an annual commission that engages directly with Wysing’s site and surrounding landscape. Marking a move away from indoor, exhibition-based projects, the opportunity invites artists to intervene in and re-make the facade of Wysing’s most prominent building.

Supported Arts Council England and Art Fund.

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Photos 2 and 4 by Sophie Davidson

Syllabus VIII: Final gathering 🌱Wysing Arts Centre • March 2026A look back at an amazing weekend at Wysing with our Syll...
16/05/2026

Syllabus VIII: Final gathering 🌱
Wysing Arts Centre • March 2026

A look back at an amazing weekend at Wysing with our Syllabus VIII artists and partners in March.

Over a weekend, the artists worked to present experiments, works in progress and finalised pieces to eachother and the Syllabus partners for discussion; we saw works spanning performance, film, sound, sculpture, and research.

We’d like to extend our warmest thanks and congratulations to this years cohort - It’s been a delight to be a part of this journey and see such fruitful conversations and incredible work come out of their time together.

Syllabus VIII artists:











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Syllabus is an alternative learning programme jointly delivered in partnership by Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, PS2, Studio Voltaire and Site Gallery, and supported by funding from Freelands Foundation.

Applications to take part in Syllabus XI are still open for a few more days. Head to the link in our bio to find out more and apply 🔗

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All images: Syllabus VIII final gathering. March 2026. Wysing Arts Centre. Images courtesy the artists. Photo: Wysing
Image 5: Work-in-progress screening of april forrest lin 林森’s upcoming film ‘Debtford’.

Coming up this Tuesday 19 May as part of DISRUPT 2026 🎤⚫️Still Noise: Ways to Occupy a Performance Space by Zhuo Mengti...
16/05/2026

Coming up this Tuesday 19 May as part of DISRUPT 2026 🎤

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Still Noise: Ways to Occupy a Performance Space by Zhuo Mengting

What filters the sounds we are tuned to hear? Whose voice is granted volume, and whose is reduced to mere noise? This lecture-performance dissects how silence and noise are socially engineered, who is amplified and what it costs a marginalised body to be heard.

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The Thicket by Yas Clarke

A strange new a capella work from Bristol-based sound artist Yas Clarke, The Thicket is an intricate, rhythmic and melodic text score, composed for four voices. Sometimes narrative, sometimes abstract and non-verbal - this text is an arcane expression of the human relationship with its environment.

🎟️ tickets at junction.co.uk

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Fox Road, Bourn
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Tuesday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 5:30pm
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